NOAA and the other Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Trustees released their 15-year comprehensive, integrated environmental ecosystem restoration plans for the Gulf of Mexico in response to the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill. The draft pDARP which can be viewed and downloaded at NOAA’s Gulf Spill Restoration website, is available for review and public comment through December 4, 2015.

RPS, led by Dr. Deborah French McCay from the RI office, has worked on several aspects of this assessment under contract to NOAA via Industrial Economics (IEc):

To view contributing work from the key staff, visit the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Deepwater Horizon Response & Restoration Administrative Record website and search under the last name of the key staff or RPS ASA .

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